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As Gannett’s Albany Bureau and other papers reported over the weekend, the debate over a property-tax cap is now being tied to rent control regulations in the state Assembly as part of a broad debate over affordable housing in New York.

Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, D-Brooklyn, told Gannett on Friday that the goal is to help all New Yorkers afford to live in the state, and that includes renewing rent control laws that expire this year. Jeffries said he also wants the state to expand its ability to refinance struggling luxury apartment buildings into affordable housing, a law that passed last ...

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